 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.  A treatise on prayer - Sivu 130tekijä(t) Edward Bickersteth - 1819 - 72 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 sivua
...which, for a (hew, make long Prayers. b Be not ralh with thy Mouth , and let not thine Heart be hafty to utter any thing before God : for God is in Heaven...and thou upon Earth: therefore let thy Words be few. c If I pray in an unknown Tongue, my Spirit prayeth, but my Underftanding is unfruitful : I will pray... | |
 | William Gordon (of Aberdeen.) - 1718 - 138 sivua
...Fools, for they know not that they do Evil. Be not rajh -with thy Mouth and let not thine Heart be hafty to utter any thing before God, for God is in Heaven,...and, thou upon Earth, therefore let thy Words be few. Experience mews us, that they who ufe extempore Prayers tranfgrefs this Rule; and all the Pretences... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1719 - 658 sivua
...not that they do evil. -v. 2. Be not rafh with thy mouth, and let not thine heart behaftyto utter aiy thing before God : for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few. Hit. 12.18. Wherefore we rehe fliall receive any thing oft: Lord. j*f4r)j,ii.J4. Thereforell" unto... | |
 | James Gardiner - 1720 - 448 sivua
...defire he mould. For this reafon Solomon difcreetly advifes us againft much talking in our prayers. * God is in heaven , and thou. upon earth, therefore let thy words be few. And our Saviour cautions us in this paragraph againft vain refetitions. Whatever is not requifite to... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1730 - 434 sivua
...the Heavens. THE word, Heaven, when applied to the Omniprefent God; as in that expreffion of Solomon, God is in Heaven, and thou upon Earth, therefore let thy words be few ; and in that compellation wherewith our Lord begins his prayer, Our Father which art in Heaven; The... | |
 | James Burroughs - 1733 - 296 sivua
...with great reverence and humility ; but can never be a reafon why we mould not approach him at all. God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be^ few, fays Solomon. He doth not fay, therefore utter no words, therefore never addrefs thy maker at all.... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 sivua
...tv«o his PR AVER (hall be Abomination. Eeclef. v. 2. Be not RASH with thy Mouth, and let not thine Heart be HASTY to utter any thing before GOD; for GOD is in HEAVEN, and thou upon E \P,TSI ; therefore let thy WORDS be FEW. Jfaiab xlv. 10. I have not fpoken in SECRET, in a dark Place... | |
 | John Abernethy - 1751 - 452 sivua
...for they confider not that they do evil. Be not raft with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hafly to utter any thing before God : for God is in heaven,...thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few. For a dream. cometh through the multitude of buJinefs, and a fool's voice is known by the multitude... | |
 | William Harris - 1753 - 410 sivua
...Britifh Solomon, in the following words, " Be not rafh with thy mouth, and let not thy *' heart be hafty to utter any thing before God ; for " God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore v.». fence, power, wifdom, and majefty of the fuperintend(c) Ecclef. " l £t 'hy words be few (f)."... | |
 | 1755 - 768 sivua
...important duty — " a Be not rafli with thy mouth, faith the preacher, and let not thine heart be hafty to utter any thing before God ; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth." When we come before the great Majefty of heaven, even in private prayer, we fhould do well to confider... | |
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